Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: > >>> I went ahead tried to do something, for better or worse. > >> What would it take to enhance it to also work on substacks? While some have >> expressed an interest in even greater granularity, I think substacks are >> probably enough for a good many people. If this tool was enhanced to do >> that it could be used by nearly everyone, regardless of how their stacks are >> architected. > > If I understand your question, this is inherently built in since one > accesses stacks through MC. Are the substacks posted not enough granularity > for you?
I think I misunderstood. I had thought it was dependent on breaking substacks out into separate stack files. >> As for the simultaneous login issue, I think that one's easy to get around >> by having a CGI that creates a file while it's working and deletes it before >> exiting. This way any second instance can check for the file with polling >> at some reasonably small interval until the file is gone. > > Maybe I'm missing something but the system I set up already does this: grab > a stack and it is marked as unavailable to anyone who attempts to grab that > stack from the server. No CGI needed (unless we suddenly get hundreds of > interested folks all vying for stack access at the same time). It may be unlikely, but in the variant I'm building for a client we had to do it to eliminate the admittedly small possibility of simulataneous writes to the permissions file. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
